Spring bed



C. R. HARVEY.

SPRING BED.

APPLICATION FILED ocr. 1. 1920.

1,414,277. Patented Apr. 25, 1922.

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- CLARENCE R; HA V 0F BEND, OREGON. j

SPRING B D.

Specification of Letters Patent. .Pa,te n t e d Apr, 25, 1 922.

Application filed October 7, 1920. Serial No. 415,300.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I,'CLARENCE R. HARVEY, acitiz'en of the United States of. America, residing at Bend, in the county of Deschutes and State of Oregon, have invented new and useful Improvements in Spring Beds, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the invention is to provide a knock-down spring bed frame adapted to be rapidly reduced to a portable condition and having means whereby the elements thereof may be adjusted to apply the desired tension to the filler when the device is set up for use, and with this object in view, the invention consists in a construction and combination of parts, of which a preferred embodiment is shown in the accompanying drawing, wherein Figure 1, is a plan View partly in section of a spring bed having a frame embodying the invention.

Figure 2, is a detail sectional View of one of the corner joints.

Figure 3, is a similar view of one of the side members to'show the means for connecting the end. members of the frame and tensioning the filler which is terminally sup ported thereby.

frame having end members 10 and 11, each of which includes a cross bar 12, and a filler 13 supported by the frame and terminally attached to the cross bars and adapted to be placed in tension. to afford the deadjacent extremities thereof-are connected by coupling elements 16, which consist'of rods or tubes of relatively smaller diameter than those of the side arms, one end of 19 consisting member 11 while the other end thereof is adapted to fit into the endof the correcated.

In assembling the parts of the frame, the threaded extremities of the connecting ele- PATENT" oF-FmE.

1 eachcoupling member being threaded as I indicated'at 17 to'fit'fwithin and engage the finterior threads 18 of the arms of the frame.

'ments should be seated in the threaded eX-- tremities of the arms of the-member ll-jand the plain smooth terminals of said, connecting elements fitted into the arms of the member 10 and after the extremities of the filler 13 have been engaged with the cross bars 12 7 said connecting or. coupling elements may be turned to force the end members of the frame outward or from. each other by reason of the threaded connections p 17. and 18 applying the desired tension to the filler, Obviously "the folding of. the Y frame for transportation or storage may be effected by reversing the; indicated opera,- tion and the. entire structure maybe folded or rolled .intoa compact form which may i be stored in a trunk or may be conveniently. carried as apart of theeq-uipment of an if v 3 The-invention having been described,- what is claimed as new and useful is: V

A foldable spring bed having a frame.

automobile or like vehicle. i

comprising end members each of whichconsists of; a cross bar,,tubular side arms piv' 'otally connected to the end members, coupling elements terminally fitted in the extremities of theside arms and. formed at one end with exterior threads-engaging i'nter1or threads in certam of the side arms,-

plugs carried on the interior of the .remainj ing' side arms and inset from the extremi ties of the latter, the remaining ends of the n coupling elementsslidably engaging the said rema1n1'ng side armsand abuttmg'sald plu'gs, and a filler tensioned between opposite end members.

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In testimony'whereof he afiizies his s ign'a- T CLARENCE R. H R EY f V sponding arm of the frame member 10 the 1 extent of insertion being limited by a stop of a plug or block as indi- 

